Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

Due to the improvement and perfection of technology, the production cost of iPod is actually not high. It sells for US$499 and costs only a few dozen US dollars.

Zhao Ye remembers that he only spent two to three hundred yuan on his first MP3 player.

Wujiang Group has developed for more than ten years and has now accumulated tens of millions of fans.

Just compare Apple in the previous life with Zewujiang Group, they are far inferior.

When Wujiang’s new products are launched, fans naturally rush to buy them. What’s more, the iPod itself is extremely amazing. But anyone who takes a look at it will not dislike it.

It's just that the price of iPod is a little expensive, and many people have to save enough money to buy it.

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"It would be great if our company could obtain the MP3 license from Wujiang Group, and we could develop our own MP3 brand player..."

"Hurry up and contact Wujiang Group and say that we are willing to show higher sincerity and want to obtain MP3 authorization!"

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At this time, companies that had not obtained MP3 authorization were unwilling to accept it and raised their prices one after another.

However, Zhao Ye did not agree for the time being, but he did not refuse either.

While Zhao Ye is waiting for the first batch of companies to obtain MP3 authorization to make crazy profits, other companies will naturally be jealous and envious and try to obtain MP3 authorization at all costs.

Recently, although the iPod Walkman has not entered the US market, major American media have been reporting frantically on the iPod.

The American people are also very eager for iPods. In almost all major cities in the United States, many people took to the streets to demonstrate, demanding that the United States lift its restrictions on Wujiang Group.

"We want iPod, we want ivp6 Internet, we want Borderless Portal, we want China Computer, we want Hongmeng system..."

“We Americans also need Borderless Group!!!”

If there is demand, it means business opportunities.

In fact, although the U.S. authorities have introduced policies that strictly prohibit Wujiang Group’s products from entering the U.S. market, smugglers have become increasingly rampant and rampant.

Countless people in Mexico and Canada have made huge profits from smuggling Wujiang Group products into the United States.

For example, for the iPod Walkman, the smuggling gang even set up a server where various pirated music is downloaded. Users who purchase iPods can use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to download music from this server!

This is awesome!

The iPod Walkman has become so popular in the United States!

In just one month, more than 500,000 iPods entered the US market.

Smuggled goods are of course more expensive. iPods are in short supply in the United States, and it is extremely normal to sell them for US$799, US$899, or even US$999.

American record companies are currently struggling. They have to deal with Wujiang Group, pirated music websites and smugglers, but no one is easy to deal with.

Record companies' losses have been mounting.

There are even singers who are afraid to release records because they are afraid that pirated music will appear on the Internet and their albums will not sell well.

The entire recording industry was hit hard.

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"Hello, Mr. Sam Cromwell, as the president of Universal Records, what do you think of the new iPod?" a reporter from "Hollywood Entertainment" asked.

Sam Cromwell angrily said: "The iPod is the most rubbish product I have ever seen. It seriously infringes on the music versions of major record companies and tramples on the intellectual property protection laws of the United States! Like the iPod This product should not exist at all! Here, I call on people across the United States and even the world to boycott the iPod!"

When the reporter heard this, his face showed excitement. The more exciting the answer, the better.

"It is reported that the inventor of iPod is Zhao Ye. Everyone says he is a talented genius. Mr. Sam Cromwell, what do you think?" the reporter asked again.

"What a bullshit genius... He is the executioner of the record industry and the mastermind behind pirated music. He single-handedly destroyed the entire record industry. He is simply a devil!!!"

The next morning, the front page headline of the "Hollywood Entertainment" newspaper read: "Universal Records claims that Zhao Ye from China has almost single-handedly destroyed the entire U.S. recording industry. He is simply a devil!"

Indeed, the U.S. recording industry has been hit hard, with direct or indirect economic losses estimated to have exceeded tens of billions of dollars.

Zhao Ye suppressed the development of the American record industry through a simple iPod product.

All the major record companies in the United States now hate Zhao Ye to the core, but there is nothing they can do about him.

Zhao Ye likes the way you can't stand me but can't kill me.

At this time, at the headquarters of Wujiang Group, Zhao Ye, with the idea of ​​chasing down the bad guys, said to Zhuang Hongxin, the person in charge of MP3: "The price of iPod is too high, and there are still relatively few people buying it. It is best to launch a new one." MP3 brand, low configuration, focusing on mid- to low-end, the brand name is Meizu..."

Zhao Ye thought as he said, "Meizu MP3 is as big as a lighter. It only has a small screen that can display the song title and a line of lyrics. It has a capacity of only 100MB and can store thirty or forty songs!"

As Wujiang Group has authorized MP32 patents to 3 companies, these companies have naturally become Wujiang Group’s competitors. Rather than ceding all the mid- to low-end markets to them, Wujiang Group itself should take a share of the pie, mainly because of the MP3 Walkman. The mid- to low-end market is huge and everyone can have enough to eat.

In previous lives, at least 50% of students had bought MP3 players or MP4s.

Zhao Ye murmured: "Thirty or forty songs should be enough for users. If they listen to it for a long time and get tired of it, they can go to the Internet cafe to download and replace new songs at any time."

His first MP3 was similar to this low-end MP3 Walkman.

Like this MP3, the production cost is only about twenty-five dollars.

Priced overseas at US$99, it will definitely be sold out.

When Zhuang Hongxin heard this, he couldn't help but nodded heavily and said: "Okay, boss, no problem, we can come up with a sample within half a month!!!"

Obviously, this is not a big technical problem.

Meizu MP3 just lowers the configuration of iPod.

Zhao Ye smiled and nodded: "Yes."

"Oh, by the way, an iPod Mini version can also be developed, with slightly lower storage space and size, and available in five colors: silver, gold, blue, green and pink."

When Zhuang Hongxin heard this, his eyes lit up. He felt that the iPod mini product seemed to have more development potential than Meizu MP3, especially with a variety of colors to choose from, which would definitely be popular among girls.

After more than an hour, the meeting ended.

Zhuang Hongxin returned to the laboratory, immediately called all members of the development team over, and then assigned tasks to everyone.

Zhao Ye returned to his office and reviewed the documents.

Recently, Wujiang Group’s investment in the Three Gorges Dam project and the ten major highway projects have been implemented.

The iPod was a hit, and Wujiang Group once again made huge profits. This gave Zhao Ye a new confidence and decided to increase investment in water conservancy projects and transportation.